The Kennedys - dire or dire

[Myeyesmyears]

Man O man it's really dire. Or were all the women made of wood in the 1960s?

Not to mention plinky plonky incidental music - Eurgh.........

Oh Katie

I was tempted, pleased I steered clear!

Chandler Bing as Ted Kennedy

Jackie didn't age a day in all those decades And the budget obviously didn't stretch to her having a daughter, or John Jr's sister-in-law being on the doomed flight.

Dire - but John jr was easy on the eye.

I quite enjoyed it?

They certainly moved at a quick pace to get all those years covered! I did I look away when Onassis died?!

Why were they all such strange skin colours and textures, it was as though my TV had been covered in orange peel.

"....or John Jr's sister-in-law being on the doomed flight."

I thought that to begin with too, Deidre. But then realised at the end, before the credits, there was some wording saying what had happened in the future, including the plane crash. So I guess that scene was a 'taster' of what was to happen some years down the line.

I was very disappointed by the Onassis residence in Greece - I thought it would have been more opulent than that. Actually, I've just looked at some images and it appears there is a much larger house too - the smaller one was probably a posh beach hut!

Good point, FruBayer! I'd assumed John and Carolyn were boarding the doomed flight.

I am looking forward to seeing the Jackie Kennedy film starring Natalie Portman - it's supposed to be fab.

I made the mistake of watching the Martin Sheen Kennedy thing thinking it was going to be like a West Wing- The Early years. Oh my God I couldn't watch it for Martin Sheen's stupid, but very authentic, accent.